[Info-vax] What is your favorite tool lo look at open batch log files? I use a vested ICR LIST from 1988 (binary translated from VAX to Alpha)

[Jon Pinkley]

On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 6:39:53 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> That is often useful, though TYPE/TAIL sometimes doesn't work (I'm not 
> sure exactly when).  Before TYPE/TAIL was available, I used the 
> following C code which I got from somewhere (probably comp.os.vms):

followed by c source code for TAIL version 2.4, 09/10/91. D. Shepperd

For future readers, TAIL 2.4 with some additions by Ehud Gavron (help file and some changes to support Alpha) is on Hunter Goatley's FILESERV and mirrors.

For example, here: http://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/tail.zip

Other file viewing tools there.  LOOK, EXTRACT, EPYT (type backwards)

Another is VLOG on the VAX92A decus tape (on Eisner.decus.org in disk$repository:[MASTER.VMS.SIG_TAPES.VAX92A.NSWC]) or decus archives for example at digiater.nl in https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax92a/nswc/  (Fortran sources are in an lz compressed vms backup saveset).

I have only used LOOK and TAIL (but currently have TAIL == "TYPE/TAIL" in my login.com)

Another thread on comp.os.vms  for reference https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/9IzdS82lYxk/dUi07WmWVcMJ